EU examines practices Network Solutions
“We must clear let notice that we anxiously are about the role, that NSI plays in the award of domain names,” say a civil servant of the EU, that anonymous wishes to remain. According to the official are letters steered to various businesses in which is asked their experiences with NSI on paper to set. Further will the EU eager knowledge what the details its of licentieovereenkomsten with the American business.
In April, the European Commission steered a letter to the American National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a part of the ministry from Trade. In the seven pages counting letter explains the Commission her see to with relation till NSI. Especially the expenses, that NSI brings her next competitors in bill, stop the EU against the breast. European businesses would have to compete with no honest chance.
The letter makes mention of informal complaints that the EU gotten has about dishonest treatment through NSI. The investigation of the Commission happens according to the writing `met complete cooperation' of the American ministry of Justice. Ondertekenaar of the letter is John Long, chairman of an antitrustdivisie of the European Commission.
The ministry of Justice in Washington examines already longer or Network Solutions abuse makes of her power. Among many the geheimhouden of a list with domain names, that the business spent at the time of her monopoly on the uitgifte of. com,. neat and. org took, is subject of investigation.
The European Commission addresses Registered mainly on the Standard Licensing Agreement, that businesses that the competitions sign enter into must want with NSI. The Commission asks self finished or NSI competition impossibly makes through too strict conditions to put and to ask many money. Who domains want to go register must among many a guarantee explanation for 100,000 dollars consult and pay 10,000 dollars at licentiekosten.
Last year was decided to lift the monopoly of Network Solutions on. There are now five businesses that domains register may although not yet everything lapses without problems. (See news of 28 June.) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is now responsible for the uitgifte of domain names, the managing of IP-addresses and Internet Protocol (IP) standards. (See news of 22 April.)
The investigation of the EU began straight after the ommezwaai in the internet regime were announced. Then EU-commissioner Martin of Bangemann ups and downs in a letter at the American government, in which he applauded the coming of ICANN, on the investigation of the EU to the relation between the American government and NSI.